Friday, January 3, 1947

Our Athletes

py FRANK

Auxiliary President

JWV
Broadcast

KMAN

By

THIS COLUMNS most bally-
hooed professional basketball game
is finally going to take place.
New York's Knickerbockers, made
up almost entirely of Jewish play-
ers, are in town to do battle with
the Detroit Fal-
cons Saturday
night at Olym-
pia in the first
of three appear-
ances the visit-
ors will make
here.
The Knicks
have faltered a
little since their
auspicious, ear-
Beckman ly-season start
and have since been supplanted as
leaders in the eastern division of
the Basketball Association of
America by Washington. Still the
New Yorkers are rated as one of
the four best teams in the pro
circuit.
When the campaign began,
this quintet, which is sponsored
by Madison Square Garden, con-
sisted of five Jewish regulars.
They were Leo Gottlieb, and
Sonny Hertzberg at forwards;
Jake Weber, center; and Ossie
Schechtman and Ralph Kaplo-
witz at guards.
Finding his team lacking in
.heighth, Coach Neil Cohalan la-
ter acquired a couple of "sky-
scrapers" and injected them into
the starting lineup.
Saturday's game will mark the
second meeting between these two
outfits. Detroit lost, 70 to 57, in
New York after getting off to a
10 to 0 lead in the opening min-
utes. Kaplowitz, former New York
University star, was high man
with 15 points.
The Knickerbockers will also ap-
pear in Detroit Feb. 2 and Feb. 16.

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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

DR.

PERRY P. . BURNSTINE

The Palestine Scene

Rowdyism, Shootings
Mark Yule Celebration

THE LADIES AUXILIARIES of
the department of Michigan enter-
tained the hospitalized veterans
at Fort Wayne recently with a
bingo party and awarded prizes.
Plants, gifts and cigarets were
distributed to all the patients and
refreshments were served.
For information on membership,
call TO. 5-4651.
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THE DEPARTMENT will hold
JERUSALEM (Palcor)—Rowdy brawls, shooting in
its first monthly meeting of the
New Year at 10:30 a. m. Jan. 5, the air, smashed windows and attempts at pilfering
in the auditorium, 8212 Twelfth marked the Christmas celebration of some British soldiers
street. The agenda will concern in Palestine, causing frightened residents of Jerusalem.
itself with:
Nathanya and other centers adjacent to military camps
1. FEPC in Michigan;
2. The Movement to permit the to lock themselves in their houses and bolt shutters. No
maximum number of DP's into the serious casualties resulted but ten- I
diamond factories In Tel Aviv and
sion ran high.
United States;
MRS. SAUL BLOOM
The most serious incident oc- Nathanya Dec. 26 by bands of
• * •
3. Midyear national and de-
curred the night after Christmas armed men who escaped.
partment convocations;
4. Selection of six national or- in Nathanya where a large band
ganizers with location of one of of soldiers, according to eye-wit-
110BERMAN FAMILY CLUB
the six in the department head- nesses Including several officers,
Trudy Hoberman has been elect-
rioted in the streets, detonating
quarters in Detroit;
ed president of the Asher Hober-
5. Departmental administration; scare and incendiary bombs.
man Family Club. Other officers
Terrorized residents called the
6. Annual patriotic Military Ball,
are Julius Wagman, vice presi-
Feb. 22, 1947, Masonic Temple.
police but they arrived an hour
dent; Belle Hoberman, secretary;
• * *
after tile soldiers had left.
and Sid Feiner, treasurer.
DETROIT POST No. 135 will
The Jewish Community Council
sponsor a series of patriotic pub- of Jerusalem lodged a strong pro-
.r
lic functions during the next test with the district commissioner
Reservations are being taken for several months. The first will be against the repeated shootings of
the dinner-dance of the Detroit held on Sunday, Jan. 19, when civilians by British military pa-
Lodge Auxiliary of Bnai Brith to Federal Judge Theodore Levin will trols which the government has
be held at 7 p. m. Saturday, Jan. be the principal speaker.
been passing off as "regretable
18, at the Hotel Book Cadillac.
« • *
accidents" without taking any ac-
Mickey Woolf and his orchestra
A stirring cavalcade of
PFC JOSEPH BALE POST re- tion against the offenders.
will provide the music. This affair cently sponsored a welcome' home
melodies y o u have always
The
protest
followed
the
wound-
is the auxiliary's major fund rais- party for its many members who
loved:
ing project, which aids the fol- attend the University of Michigan, ing of four persons, one serious-
Available at
ly, when a soldier fired on a group
lowing programs:
Wayne University, and other col-
National Jewish Hospital, Leo N. leges. The Bale post Auxiliary of Jews whose identities were be-
Planet
Levi Memorial Hospital, Allied Re- will be instituted mid their officers ing checked by a military• patrol
in the Prophets street.
lief, Scholarships, Wider Scope, installed on Jan. 16.
Sound & Recording Corp.
The Jews were ordered out of
Bellefaire, National Post War
HO. 9851
13219 DEXTER
a bus and lined up facing a wall
Fund, Adopted European Families,
1 Block South of Davison
Hospital and In-Camp, Anti-Defa-
To Play at Ezra Affair while soldiers checked the papers
of each. While this was underway
mation League, Hillel Foundation,
a soldier on guard fired a burst
BBYO, Vocational Guidance and
from a Sten gun, hitting four Jews.
Four Freedoms Library.
Police later stated that the inci-
Mrs. David Grosberg, TO. 7-1359,
PRO CAGE JOTTINGS: Davey
dent was an accident.
Banks, former coach of the Chica- is in charge of reservations. Mrs.
The Stern Gang announced over
go Gears of the National Basket- Leonard Tigay is 'ticket chairman
their clandestine radio that they
ball League, has been signed as and Mrs. Jack Hartstein yearbook
had passed and carried out the
mentor of the Troy Celtics in the chairman. Mrs. Saul Bloom is aux-
death sentence against 25 year-old
American Basketball League. iliary president.
Israel Levin, whose bullet riddled
Banks coached the original New
body was found bound and blind-
York Celtics from 1926 to 1942.
folded in Hadassah Park in Tel
Dutch Garfinkle has been pur-
Aviv.
chased from Rochester by the
The Sternites said Levin signed
The Two Maxes — Maxie Baer
Boston Celtics of the Basketball
a full confession that he had been
Association of America. Gar- and Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom,
paid by police to go to Italy to
finkle is the second Jewish play- former kings of the' boxing ring
spy on the organization behind
er acquired by Boston this and now regarded as America's
Jewish immigration, and that he
month. Moe Becker is the other. greatest comedy team, are the stars
had been extorting money in the
Leo Gottlieb, New York Knick- of the New Year's week show at
name of the Stern Gang.
in his eighth the Bowery. They will remain in-
erOuckor's f
Diamonds valued at $76,000 and
season of professional basketball. clusive of Sunday, Jan. 5.
Laughs flow freely when this
$2800 in cash were stolen from
Leo was born 26 years ago iq
BETTY KOWALSKY, pianist,
3mous
fistic
pair
get
together.
New York City. He was gradu-
will share the spotlight with
ated from De Witt Clinton High The team originated in Slapsie Frances Bloom, soprano, on a
School about the same time that Maxie's own club in Hollywood musical program to be presented
DOWEI: #10110
Bernie Friedman, Wayne Univer- and became an overnight sensa- at the donor luncheon of Ezra,
sity center, was a freshman there. tion. Since that time they have American Federation of Polish
Gottlieb, who served four years as appeared in many of the country's Jews, Wednesday at the Hotel
leading supper rooms and night
a private first class in the Army
Statler. Rabbi Jacob Segal will
two of which were spent overseas, clubs and have "guested" on top be guest speaker. A brunch par-
radio shows.
is a rabid golf enthusiast.
Frank Bar*,, ro has assembled a ty will be given by Mrs. I. Fin-
• • •
great supporting show for the kelstein, president, for members
Also Furniture Cleaning
and their friends at 12:30 p.m.
DETROIT WILL have 25 teams champs including Frankie Rapp, Saturday, Jan. 4, in her home
one of the nation's funniest jesters
eligible for the Toledo sectional
at 12355 Santa Rosa drive.
tournament of the national Bnai of ceremonies;
'5
Brith bowling meet Feb. 1-2, it
was announced by the bowling as-
sociation.
The following weekend, 20 teams
from this city will travel to Mil-
waukee as part of the 101 out-of-
town teams that will compete
there.
Fifty single prizes will be pre-
sented at each tourney starting
REDUCTIONS OF
at $40 and ranging to $4.75. Cash
prizes in team events will range
from $200 to $15. Five awards for
A COLUMBIA
all-events, from $25 to $5, will also
be at stake. Trophies will go to
PICTURE
the winning and runne•-up teams
ON ALL FURS
and Individual awards will be
made to members of both squads.
RUSSIAN
Other teams .that will compete
at Toledo include Flint, 6; Akron,
6; Columbus, 20; Canton, 6; Cleve-
CANADIAN
land, 25; Dayton, 12; Elmira (N.Y.)
I 2; Erie (Pa.), 2; Toledo, 24; and
WE HAVE A FINE SELECTION OF FURS
Rochester, 2.
TO CHOOSE FROM
Bay City with four teams and
Grand Rapids with three will be
COATS - JACKETS - SCARFS
the other Michigan cities repre-
sented at Milwaukee.
MADE TO ORDER and READY TO WEAR
• • •
REPAIRING AND REMODELING
MARTIN "THE BLIMP" Levy,
630 pounds of wrestler, was mar-
ried in the ring recently to Char-
lotte Arlene Jones of Denver,
Colo., who weighed in at 110 lbs.
• • •
FURRIERS
ONLY ONE MAN, Ben Hogan,
finished ahead of Herman Barron
11547 DEXTER BLVD. at Burlingame
of White Plains, N. Y., when it
came to winning money as a pro-
HOgarth 5814
Opposite Dexter Theatre
fessional golfer in 1946. Barron
pocketed $23,003 as compared to
$42,556 for Hogan.
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Trigger Happy Tommy Wounds 4;
Sternites Execute Police-Paid Spy

Bnai Brith Lodge
Dinner-Dance Set

Tickets Are on Sale
for Affair of Jan. 18

The Jolson
Album
.

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JOLSON
STORY

Maxie Baer, Slapsie
Draw Bowery Laughs

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